True crime stories & great mysteries
Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.
True crime stories
D.B. Cooper
On November 24, 1971, a very unusual crime took place - on board of a passenger plane, an unknown man demanded ransom and two parachutes, and otherwise he will detonate the bomb in his briefcase...
JFK assassination
American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while visiting Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The official version is that he was shot by a single, obviously insane, shooter...
Kidnapping of Lindbergh baby
The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr, son of famous American aviator Charles Lindbergh, was one of the first big trials that gathered massive media coverage. The 20-months-old...
Great mysteries
Disappearance of Flight MH 370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur and was heading for Beijing in China. About 40 minutes later, just when it was leaving the Kuala Lumpur air traffic control area...
Easter Island
Rapa Nui, the Easter Island, still hides many mysteries - from the origins of its inhabitants to rongorongo script and famous moai statues.
Oak Island mystery
A small island on the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, became famous after the discovery of a strange well-like hole in the ground with a bottom made of wood. At least that what it looked...
UFO sightings
When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...
Controversial theories
UFO sightings
When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...
9/11 attacks
Two planes full of passengers hit the twin towers of World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, starting one of the most mysterious conspiracy theories in history. At 8:46 AM, five...
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
On September 1, 1983 Boeing 747 suddenly flew into Soviet Union airspace over Kamtchatka Peninsula. It was Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and soon Soviet fighters were sent to intercept the intruder...
Pearl Harbor attack
The Attack on Pearl Harbor dragged the United States into the World War 2. It was the last straw that left Americans no choice but to join the Allies and declare war on Japan. At least...
Unexplained phenomena
Amityville horror house
An average house at the end of the road in Amityville proved to be a crime scene, where the whole DeFeo family was killed. Years later, the new inhabitants of the house had to ask for...
Beast of Gevaudan
Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...
Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the Northern Atlantic between the eastern coast of the United States and the Bermuda Islands, where some unexplained events took place since the 15th century...
High Rock event
In June 1966, four boys went to the top of High Rock (Wysoki Kamien) in Poland, where they wanted to see if the rumours of this place being haunted were truth. What happened to them...
Crime and mystery movies
Cure 1997
Detective is assigned to strange murder case - different people killed someone in exactly the same way and none of them remember why.
When Eight Bells Toll 1971
A British Treasury agent takes up investigation into the case of commercial ships going missing in the Irish Sea.
Ransom 1974
Hijacked airplane lands in one of Scandinavian countries, where the story takes strange twists.
U Turn 2016
A young reporter follows a story of people, who remove the blocks separating two lanes on the flyover to make a U turn and avoid traffic, which causes later accidents and death of other people.